Sentences with phrase «function as the church»

The building functions as a church (a roof covering several large rooms and kitchen without a cross or alter etc), feeding center and school.

If the church truly functioned as the church Sunday's would be about fellowship, prayer, worship (not rock concert that I can't sing too), and the gifts of the people displayed.

We can get it quite wrong in how we function as the church, but it's important, in my mind, to distinguish that form the viability of the institution itself.

If you have questions or concerns about what church is, how to function as the church, or what the Bible says about church, I recommend you read the following books.

All believers around the world and throughout time are the church, and in order to function as the church, we must seek opportunities to gather together.

In the New Testament who functioned as church leaders and ministers: Philip's daughters, Priscilla (with Aquila), Nympha, Phoebe, Junia (with Andronicus), Euodia and Syntyche.

I think the reason why Jesus and Paul don't go into depth in describing what their exact role and function of government should be is because If Christians are relying on God, and functioning as the church, there will be little need for a strong government.

It still functions as a church today.

H Project Space is very pleased to announce an installation and durational performance by Việt Lê, an artist based in California.Vestige explores the resonances of H Gallery's architecture, a 19th century Anglo - Thai edifice that has variously functioned as a church and orphanage in Bangkok's Christian Quarter, which Việt uses as a catalyst to refract fragments of Southeast Asia's histories.

After functioning as a church for 120 years, this gorgeous historic property in Savannah, Ga., has been transformed into a sprawling two - condo living space, offering four bedrooms, four bathrooms and all the stained glass detailing you could possibly hope for.

Not exact matches

Elaine Pagels, among others, has argued that the success of the affirmation of a bodily resurrection was due to the way it functioned in the early Church, as it served to legitimate the authority of a narrow circle of bishops.

It is a privately built church that gladly hosts state functions such as presidential funerals and national memorial services.

As continuing licensed ministers, their roles were normally limited to being associate pastors of churches, hospital chaplains or religion teachers, and their functions were also restricted.

And whilst I understand concerns surrounding institutionalisation of the church we can't get away from the fact for a community to function effectively requires structure, strategy and systems as well as values and vision to carry out its purpose's.

This was the assumed function of theology as a servant of the church.

The authors judge, correctly I reckon, that however individualistic conservatives» political and theological ideology may be, their churches are apt to function more like authentic communities — close - knit groups, commitment to which is viewed by their members not as optional but as integral to individual identity.

The key concept here is that the bishop of Rome, as the first in the ecclesiastical «taxis», the order of the local churches and their pastors, has a responsibility for ensuring the harmonious functioning of that taxis as a whole.

But Wilson would have us believe that, if only the church's male members would «man up» and take control over the vexatious vixens among us, we would see the church functioning as it should.

He is writing to believers about how to live as followers of Jesus and function within the church.

A clergyman functions as a preacher when he proclaims Christ, the significance of Christ for men, and the need for acceptance of Christ as bringing wholeness of life; he is to preach for repentance and for participation in the Church which is the setting for the gospel.

Some of these pioneers in changing the church find that the best way to function as the Body of Christ is to leave the institutional church behind, and live and love like Jesus with other people in their community and their neighborhood.

Also, the church can function as one of the finest stabilizing forces for senior citizens, providing a sense of purpose and significance to their lives and incorporating them meaningfully and creatively into the religious group life of the church and community.

He does not function or have the same responsibilities as the pastor of a church or temple.

The identity of the Church according to the model we have been suggesting is not found in an essential definition of its nature as an institution, but in the function of its evolution.

[4] When theological schooling is defined as preparation for filling the functions that make up the role of professional church leadership, graduates turn out to be incapable of nurturing and guiding congregations as worshiping communities, the health of whose common life depends on the quality of the theology that is done there.

Certainly, Jesus changed some of the Kingdom expectations through His life, teaching, and ministry, especially in the areas of what sort of Messiah King He was going to be, and how the Kingdom of God would exist and function upon the earth, but the overall hopes and dreams of Israel, especially as presented within the Prophets, remained intact through the teachings and ministry of John, Jesus, and the Early Church.

If you, as the pastor, used to do 90 % of the «ministry» functions of the church (however that is defined) during your 60 - 70 hours of work, but you can now only devote 10 - 15 hours per week to «pastoral work» (but see the point above), this means that someone else in the church is going to have to step up to the plate and fill in the gaps.

This fundamental function of general civil religion could be carried out by churches that remained indifferent to the special civil religion embodied in such documents as the Declaration of Independence and bound up with the history of the American nation, but most American religious groups have been able to affirm both general and special civil religion as well as their own doctrinal peculiarities.

Consequently when we have to determine limits in the function, competence and possibilities of the ministry in the Church, that certainly does not mean that precisely the same limits are found, similarly located, among Christians as members of the one Church and, in this sense, in the Church itself.

The church is not equipped to function as a job service agency.

But if this seems unsuitable in the case of the Church (though it might be given some thought), the election of lay representatives beyond the small groups of the parish is a difficult question, especially as the Catholic associations no longer have a function similar to that of the political parties in appointing such represent - ative bodies.

Though 1 Corinthians 13 is often read at weddings, it has very little to do with the love between a man and a wife, and everything to do with how a church can function as the Body of Christ.

Since the gospel is always received and appropriated in a specific cultural form, and since the church is established and functions as a social institution, the changes that are taking place in global societies have profound implications for churches (as profound, some have suggested, as our initial transition from a regional Jewish Jesus movement into a global Gentile church).

The idea of church as storyteller may seem to diminish its importance, but this function has utmost significance.

What does it mean to say that the church functions as a community of memory, especially at a time when so many of its actual historic links are being weakened?

My parish church is a genuine neighborhood center, in contrast to new suburban churches, which function (in terms of formal order) as the center of parking lots.

The purpose of the elders is to oversee, that is to keep heresy out of the church, and to allow the church to function as a body, not a dictatorship.

What it revealed was their conviction that Christian theology in its form and substance as well as its function in the church must be determined by God's authoritative Word, the written Scriptures.

As many of the other functions of the church erode, the memory - preserving function may gain in relative importance.

Agree with premise — the one time I truly saw the church functioning as unified body was right after 9/11 — never before have I seen people of faith come together like this to do whatever was needed to help a city recover.

But the minister bears ultimate responsibility for the teaching; and unless he has been stampeded away from regarding this supervision as his principal «teaching,» he will feel a deep commitment to the entire teaching work of the church through this redefinition of his teaching function.

The 1959 United Church of Christ Statement of Faith might well be understood as having already fulfilled this function.

The church does much better when it functions as its founder envisioned — as salt or leaven — rather than when it attempts to be the whole loaf.

Unfortunately, the 1959 UCC Statement of Faith has attained quasi-creedal status for some UCC people, and functions in a number of churches as a kind of modern confession test.

I mean, how can a group of ten people function well as the church if they are missing the gift of teaching, or encouragement, or administration?

Most mainline Protestant churches in Puerto Rico, with the exception of the recently autonomous Puerto Rican Episcopal Church, are institutionally attached to their parent bodies, functioning as if Puerto Rico were already a state.

The answer is that theology is a very human, and very important, enterprise; that grasping and assimilating what God has done and continues to do is not something that can be engaged in passively but is a challenge to everything any of us possesses; that the separation of theologizing from what the minister and the church try, fallibly but authentically, to hear of the Word of God in specific situations from some alleged and remote theology is bound to be blasphemous as well as mistaken; and that the one way to hear the Word of God, if it contains the Protestant principle, is to submit our functions to concrete self - criticism.

These functions we do as a church have the overriding purpose of teaching the spiritual realm.

During the period when a college simply functioned as a gathering of the church, with its foibles and deficiencies as well as its advantages and virtues, its Christian identity seemed not to require affirmation or reflection.

We have disavowed a view of the relation between the colleges and the churches which would permit viewing them as agencies of the church in preference for a covenant relationship in which each is recognized to have its own function but a common commitment and point of view on crucial issues.